After 6 months away at WIS, I decided to kick off my return with an OL team in Coors. I'd tried to win there a couple of times in the past, with no success.

My basic idea this time was to draft very few PA and IP and use AAA/scrubs in non-essential games. I drafted 1234 quality innings, plus a scrub pitcher. I had a shuttle bus taking scrub pitchers to and from the WW all season long -- they made 21 starts for me and went 1-20.

I drafted 4800 PA but 1100 went to the minors with only 3700 making the team. These PA were spread over 4 full-time (ish) positions and 3 part-time positions. I used the hell out of my AAA hitters (a couple aren't shown below as they were traded before the deadline).

We finished the season 102-50, then went 11-3 in the playoffs. Here are the final regular season stats for the team:

I've made the playoffs with Coors teams but always got knocked out in the first round. This is my first Coors team, though, with really good pitching. (And I usually feel guilty using Joss in Open Leagues, but if there's any park where it's justified it's this one. It's those guys using him in Safeco/Petco/Astrodome who are overdoing it!)

That's cool. All these years of playing and I've still never fielded a team at Coors. Looks like you hit the SIM jackpot with an assignment of three productive AAA players (Lipps, Rouff, and Weik); two of which had BAs over .370 and OPS of over .900. Since you were able to use them for nearly 900 PAs, it really helped out your team. Well done.

I've just entered another OL team in Coors. No big HR hitters this time (and no cookies -- all 8 of my hitters have been used fewer than 50 times). And no Joss (I'm using 4 lefty starters -- two Doc Whites and two Jeff Pfiesters). Will post an update on this team later...

Well, I've had to update the title of this thread, as this Coors OL team just won me a TOC! The icing on the cake was sweeping an OL cookie team in the Finals -- Bip, Coleman, Dilone, Carter, Joss, Summers, Milacki, etc. in the Astrodome.

My most recent OL Coors team just wrapped up with a loss in the World Series. We went 91-71 in the regular season with batters who had fewer than 50 uses in the sim (two of them, 2010 Justin Morneau and 1961 George Altman, set Performance History bests). Our AAA bats came in handy again -- five of them were good hitters and the two who weren't had great D (the 2B had an A+/A+ rating and the C threw out 26 of 42 runners).

Name (Bats)

Pos

Order

%

PA

AB

HR

RBI

SB

AVG

OBP

SLG

$

Elmer Flick '05 (L)

LF*

1

100

649

601

8

93

0

.341

.387

.504

4.58M

Enos Slaughter '40 (L)

RF*

2

100

648

589

10

91

0

.341

.401

.480

4.79M

George Altman '61 (L)

CF*

3

100

649

606

27

146

0

.350

.387

.592

4.95M

Jack Clements '95 (L)

C *

4

100

439

407

25

97

0

.405

.444

.668

5.56M

Justin Morneau '10 (L)

1B*

5

100

346

298

10

65

0

.423

.494

.614

4.47M

Harvey Hendrick '29 (L)

3B^

6

100

445

399

11

89

0

.338

.400

.494

3.79M

Arky Vaughan '41 (L)

SS*

7

100

446

399

1

47

0

.336

.406

.434

4.01M

Charlie Gehringer '31 (L)

2B*

8

100

423

392

2

77

0

.349

.395

.454

3.79M

Nelson Alfieri '13 (R)

3B*

Bench

100

220

191

8

33

0

.335

.418

.550

200K

Tracey App '13 (R)

1B*

Bench

100

347

302

14

47

0

.291

.383

.447

200K

Hassan Dinkelacker '13 (L)

LF^

Bench

100

282

239

2

40

0

.343

.433

.414

200K

Gus Krausert '13 (R)

2B*

Bench

100

200

183

4

28

0

.246

.305

.350

200K

William Mirus '13 (S)

3B*

Bench

100

250

206

12

41

0

.345

.460

.578

200K

Jesus Rhinehimer '13 (R)

C *

Bench

100

325

313

5

45

0

.252

.277

.364

200K

Ian Wicktora '13 (R)

SS*

Bench

100

303

280

2

28

0

.311

.363

.414

200K

Pitcher

Role

%

G

W-L

SV

IP

ERA

OAV

WHIP

K/9

BB/9

$

Jack Pfiester '06 (L)

89 (100)

52

13-14

0

277.0

4.55

.277

1.40

3.48

2.57

8.70M

Doc White '05 (L)

100

45

22-11

1

273.2

4.57

.298

1.50

2.63

2.63

8.15M

Doc White '06 (L)

100

38

18-7

1

228.0

4.54

.302

1.50

2.53

2.45

7.90M

Jack Pfiester '07 (L)

100

41

23-3

0

212.0

3.35

.280

1.39

2.76

2.59

6.65M

Antione Blair '13 (R)

24 (24)

23

0-16

0

120.2

26.55

.510

4.18

1.57

11.56

200K

George McQuillan '07 (R)

90 (91)

28

3-4

6

42.1

5.10

.280

1.51

3.40

3.61

1.91M

Jake Northrop '18 (R)

86 (87)

33

5-0

7

46.2

0.19

.172

0.77

0.19

1.16

2.23M

Cisco Carlos '67 (R)

78 (79)

35

3-2

7

37.2

4.06

.286

1.49

6.21

2.87

1.94M

Johnny Niggeling '43 (R)

90 (91)

34

1-1

7

52.1

2.06

.197

1.22

4.47

4.64

2.46M

Nick Maddox '07 (R)

68 (77)

36

1-3

8

44.1

3.65

.267

1.51

4.06

3.86

2.21M

Things were going smoothly in the post-season until we lost the first two games of the second round. At that point I figured I might as well burn out my stud bullpen and try to win four of the next five. We squeaked through in seven games, but the pitching was shot for the WS -- especially after the 19-inning second game which featured my tired AAA mop holding the fort in the 17th and 18th innings before finally giving up the losing run in the 19th.

Anyway, I think I'm finished with Open Leagues for a while. But next time someone moans about how you can't win in OLs without a cookie team in a pitcher's park, please link them to this thread!